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AMELI, an app to manage amendments  Athens, November 12 th 2011

AMELI, an app to manage amendments  Athens, November 12 th 2011. Initiative of law. Initiative of law is one of the most prominent rights of MP's. They have 2 ways of carrying it over : Proposals : 166 proposals introduced in 2010 (> ¼ of the laws were proposed by MP's)

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AMELI, an app to manage amendments  Athens, November 12 th 2011

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  1. AMELI, an app to manage amendments Athens, November 12th 2011

  2. Initiative of law • Initiative of law is one of the most prominent rights of MP's. • They have 2 ways of carrying it over : • Proposals : 166 proposals introduced in 2010 (> ¼ of the laws were proposed by MP's) • Amendments : between 6.000 and 11.000 amendments per year

  3. Amendment Amendment Committee meeting Plenary Sitting

  4. AMELI = AMEndements En Ligne(Amendments on line) Developed in 2001 to facilitate: • the introduction, • the registration, • the processing, • and the distribution online of amendments

  5. BEFORE AMELI • Most of the amendments were on paper • Senators used to wait until deadline to deposit their amendments to the legislation office • Amendments had to be keyed in and corrected by the legislation office AFTER AMELI • Senators themselves or their staff introduce amendements from their home or office computers • Processing amendments at the legislation office is less time consuming • Amendments are posted on a continuous flow basis

  6. Advantages Thanks to AMELI, the French Senate can : • Implement one of the core principles of its website management : the one that detains the information is the one that puts it online • reduce operational and printing costs • enhance transparency • accelerate the distribution of amendments • facilitate the computation of statistics

  7. Life cycle of an amendment • Writing • Introduction • Registration by Legislation Service • Analysis of the admissibility by Finance Committee • Distribution on the Internet • Elaboration of the roll of examination for Committee and plenary sitting • Making of the final text (including amendments)

  8. Previous step : structuration of the bill • Divide the bill into as many sub-divisions as there are titles, chapters and articles • Done by the Committee

  9. and identify all sub-divisions (titles, chapters and articles) Copy and paste text of the bill

  10. Step 1 : Creation and introduction of an amendment

  11. Accessible from any computer (with a personal password)

  12. Different profiles depending on Username

  13. Exemple of a MP profile Write a new amendment Manage and introduce amendments

  14. 1st : chose a bill

  15. Draft Budget for 2012 Nicolas About

  16. Targetted article Purpose of the amendment (suppression, re-writing, motion, new article, sub-amendment...) Text of the amendment

  17. Sponsor(s) name(s)

  18. Print version

  19. Step 2 :Introducing the amendment

  20. List of amendments yet to be introduced Introduced amendments

  21. Step 3 :The legislation office numbers the amendments, checks their admissibility and establish the roll of examination

  22. Numbering

  23. Building up the roll of examination

  24. Step 4 :The commission office or the legislation department publishes the amendments online

  25. Step 5 :During the committee meeting or plenary sitting, amendments are either carried on, negatived or dropped

  26. Carried on Negatived Satisfied Dropped

  27. Step 6 :Making of the final textExample : Healthcare budget currently discussed in the Senate

  28. Step 7 :Ameli enables to calculate statistics

  29. Next ?SOLONDematerialisation of all exchanges between the government and the 2 chambers of Parliament

  30. Thank you for your attention !

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